IPhone keeps asking me repeatedly for my Apple ID to be verified with a password, how can I fix this issue?
Essentially, all of these answers say the same thing, so I am going to sumarize.Make sure all applications you have are not in the process of being updated, but are all fully updatedUnder your Settings application, go through the App Store, iTunes Store, and iCloud accounts, and reenter the passwords to each one that prompts you. If they do not, sign out of your Apple ID in every one of the afformentioned settings, and sign back in (you could just do thise anyways, even if they do prompt you to enter in the passwords).Check for iOS updates. Typically that can resolve the issue.Restart your device. If nothing else works, hard reboot (holding down the power and home button) until the device shuts off. The latter should only be done once in a while, as it is not the best for the phone to hard reboot, but if need be, you can do it to fix an issue only every so often.By this point, you have pretty much exausted your options. If you want to try and sign out of your two App Store and iTunes Store apps, then enter into the applications and scroll all the way down until you reach the button (virtual button) that has your email in it. Tap that, and when prompted, press sign out. The virtual button then should say sign in, after which you tap it again, and reenter your Apple ID and password. You can repeat this same exact set of steps in the iTunes Store app just like in the AppStore.After this, I would recommend looking onto forums and contacting Apple, because I had the same issue and got it to go away, so if these methods do not work, I would recommend looking for more answers, as being behind a computer screen, people on this website can only help so much without having access to the phone. It takes a lot more effort to diagnose and issue baed off of text rather than handling and messing with the device.Good luck, these should work.
At what age did you start using the internet and what was it like?
At what age did you start using the internet and what was it like?I started using the Net in 2001 (and am still with the same ISP). I was 64 at the time.Lynne and I were square dancing at a club called The Mountain Time Swingers, and when the caller told me that had a web page, I Googled it. Swingers? Yeah, right! The images I found weren’t wearing square dance clothes, but I guess nude dancing could be fun.I took to it like a fish to a worm. I was hooked, and have remained so.Three years later, the webmaster of my chess club had to go overseas. He offered to teach me HTML if I’d look after the site while he was away. He insisted on giving me a good grounding in the language so I used a text editor instead of one of the more sophisticated programs that were available. I tackled it with enthusiasm and, within eight days of that conversation, had a website of my own out there.I called it Tomorrowland because Charles Schulz (of Peanuts fame) wrote, “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” I took the site down a couple of years ago but left a marker in place for anybody who still had it bookmarked.My friend kept the lessons going by email and when he returned from Canada he left me in charge. Word got around, and I found myself webmaster for half a dozen community organisations, including a couple of chess clubs, for the next eight years.I tried Facebook and lasted a couple of months Twitter was an even briefer friendship. I never saw the point. Then, about 2011 I found my first Q&A site at Ask .com and realised it was a wonderful way to learn about the world from people who actually lived in other places: people who could give their own perspective.That site closed in 2015 and it was a couple of years before my Ask friend, Yosey Huff, talked me into coming here. This is now my Internet home—even more so than chess .com which I joined within months of them going on line in 2007/8. Thanks, Yosey.It’s been a great experience. As I grow older and less able to do physical things, the Internet has provided a doorway into a world that, if it existed at all, was still in embryo only twenty years ago.
What will happen if I turn off cellular data on my iPhone? Can I still make a phone call?
Cellular data only allows the phone to connect to a data network over its cellular connection (i.e. 3G, 4G, LTE, etc).You can use Wi-Fi for most of your communications.Also, you can choose which of your installed applications use cellular data when you have it active. If you go into Settings > Cellular, you can check/uncheck the applications you wish to have access to your cellular data. When the apps are unchecked, they will only communicate over Wi-Fi (when you are connected). Doing this, you may be able to leave cellular data active (which will only engage when Wi-Fi is disconnected) and only have a small number of apps use it.The same page (where the cellular data switches are) will also show you how much data each one of your apps consumes. Note that it is lifetime data; you have to reset it to see a particular time frame. The counter reset button is all the way at the bottom of that page.You can also use the “brute force” method to force everything on to Wi-Fi:Activate “Airplane Mode,” which turns off all radiosManually turn on Wi-Fi.Can I still make a phone call?That depends on your service provider. The iPhone has the capability of supporting “Wi-Fi Calling,” but your carrier needs to support the feature also (since it’s the carrier’s VoIP endpoint that will service the call). T-Mobile, by default, supports Wi-Fi calling. It’s how they make up the difference for an, overall, weaker cellular signal. On a T-Mobile Android phone, Wi-Fi calling is on by default. On a T-Mobile iPhone, you must activate Wi-Fi calling.Not all carriers support Wi-Fi calling. For those that do not, you will have to activate your cellular radios to make a call.
What is the most ridiculous thing you have heard a teacher say?
I had an English teacher who, for anonymity’s sake, we’ll call Mrs. Fartright.Mrs. Fartright walked down the aisles, handing out our final written exam. She slides my paper onto my desk. I sign my honor pledge (no cheating etc) and open to the first page and begin conjuring my best responses.After the last question, I page back through and review. I find several typos and sentences that need rewording. I get my eraser out and scrub out bad sentences and reword them. No big deal right? I am one of the last people done. I walk up the aisle and lay my paper on the stack of know-nothings, in-betweens, and superstars.Fast forward 2 weeks. Our teacher, I mean Mrs. Fartright, hands back our papers. I get mine. I have an 89%. Which isn’t bad? But a nuisance, B’s and C’s require explanations back at the home front.I begin paging through and see -1 deductions all over the pages with no explanation. I look for patterns, but only notice the deductions are located where all of my eraser marks are. Perhaps I had worded it correctly the first time?I walk up front and kindly say “Excuse me, Mrs. Fartright, I noticed I lost points on my paper, a lot of -1 deductions, but there is no explanation?”I hand her my paper.She smiles and says “Oh yes, those deductions were for the erase marks, you may have cheated so I took a point off for those”W-w-w-w-wait a minute.I turn my head sideways, “Excuse me?”She says “Was that not clear?”, clearly irritated that I am challenging her.“No. Not clear at all. Say it one more time please”She reiterates “I took points off because your eraser marks mean you may have been copying your peers’ paper”.Blood rushes to my head. But I find a happy place and diplomatically make a case to her that this is not fair a) because it was not disclosed initially that we would lose points for erase marks and b) that is ridiculous? to take points because I “may” have cheated.We go back and forth. At this point we are sort of making a scene. I may even look like a fool up there arguing with her. But I don’t care. And neither does she, and she will not give an inch.I finally state “I am taking this to the administration, if you’d like to accuse me of cheating, go right ahead. I will not accept these deductions, on principle.”The points were awarded back to me.I thanked the gods I didn’t have to see her again.Because Mrs. Fartright clearly didn’t Graderight.(100+ edit suggestions later - Graderight was intentional. It is a joke people. But I do appreciate it)
How can I build my focus?
Try to Plan, Plan, Plan. And plan again.Let me explain:When I was 14, I had the opportunity to train in a tennis academy in Spain for 4 years while attending an American High School.A typical week day looked like this for 4 years:6:30 AM - getting up7:20 AM - bus commute to the academy8:30 AM - 14:30 PM classes with a lunch break15:00 PM - 18:00 PM tennis training18:15 PM - 19:15 PM physical training19:30 PM shower19:45 PM bus commute home20:10 PM dinner20:30–21:20 homeworkWhat that 4 years have taught me is making it a habit to plan ahead. Everything. When to buy groceries; when to hang out with friends; what to do in the weekends; how long to sleep.If it was not for this system, I could not have finished the high school with good grades that got me into the Business College I wanted to. After finishing the uni (on time - I failed one subject regrettably but I took 3 additional ones on the same year) that resulted in landing my first corporate job in 3 months.I started to look for opportunities to create my personal projects (eBooks, Kickstarter, blog, consulting work). At first, I had to find the time in order to focus on them because of my full time job. I had to design a new system:Work on my personal projects in the morning (when my brain is still fresh) for an hour or so; do my daily shopping in the morning (less people compared to in the afternoon when everybody does it after work); after which I can commute; work and get home.I would like to say that a system is the key for what I’ve achieved in my life so far and would like to help others achieve what they desire.I made a weekly planner that I published on Kickstarter with the sole purpose of providing a blank canvas for people to plan their activities ahead and track them with the task tracking.
I'm stuck in a vicious cycle because I procrastinate, waste time, get distracted and focus on non-priorities. How can I improve my situation?
There are two cycles that we can get stuck in, you are just in the wrong one, to get to the other one you have to swim hard for a while and then you are in the other maelstrom.The first cycle is the cycle of Procrastination.Just like you described this cycle focuses mainly on procrastinating, then feeling shitty about having procrastinated, and afterwards we have no motivation to work or we feel to stressed out, causing us to procrastinate even more.The second cycle is the cycle of Productivity.In this cycle you produce something, feel great about what you have accomplished, which leads you to trying to produce even more!To improve your situation you first need to get out of your current cycle and into the second one, and then you need to maintain the second one.How to get out of the cycle of Procrastination and how to stay in the cycle of ProductivityWork even though you do not feel like it → When you are stuck in the cycle of Procrastination you will NEVER feel like working. Every minute of every day will be you trying to avoid work, because you are already behind and work feels more threatening than anything else. In those moments you need to start doing something, work a little bit, maybe just clean the house or do something differnt, BUT DO SOMETHING!Remember what you already have accomplished → Instead of focusing on what you didn’t accomplish, or what you should have accomplished, focus solely on the things you did accomplish. How far have you come in the last year? What have you done that was good today? What have you done that was amazing in the last week/month? This will get you out of the negative thinking that your procrastination tries to force on you, and then you can start fresh in the new cycle.Celebrate the little wins → Reward yourself for just doing a little bit, no matter how much it is, reward yourself, celebrate that little win and really appreciate it. We often get lost in procrastination because we only focus on what we didn’t do, so to get out of it, focus on what you did do and ignore all that you didn’t do, it has passed anyway; if you still need to do it, do it now.Focus on what you can do right now → Ignore all that you still have to do, ignore all the times you didn’t do anything and just focus on what you can do at this moment in time, what you can do right now, to make yourself better or to further your cause or to reduce the amount of things you have to do.